. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. The Purple-Fringed AND THE Ragged Orchid In the common pretty purple - fringed orchid, H. psycodes, whose dense cylin- drical spikes of plumy blos- ^^r^- soms occasionally em- purple whole marshes, the pollen is tucked away in two parallel pouches, one on either id^^F-^ side of the stigma (Fig. i). In ^ i'^^^ * "^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^y^"^ ^^ sipping butterflies occasionally
. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. The Purple-Fringed AND THE Ragged Orchid In the common pretty purple - fringed orchid, H. psycodes, whose dense cylin- drical spikes of plumy blos- ^^r^- soms occasionally em- purple whole marshes, the pollen is tucked away in two parallel pouches, one on either id^^F-^ side of the stigma (Fig. i). In ^ i'^^^ * "^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^y^"^ ^^ sipping butterflies occasionally get their decoration of a tiny golden pollen club, but more frequently their tongues. If, in visiting the purple-fringed orchid, the butterfly should approach directly in front of the flower, as the bee does in the showy ' orchid, he might sip the nectar indefinitely and withdraw his tongue with- out bringing it in contact with the viscid pollen disks. But in the dense crowding of the flowers, 135. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896; Davie, Eleanor E. New York, Newson
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